Morning hairy people, evening baldies.  Well, a lot of you know this already, but it's probably high time I announced it verbally using this here blog.  I've bought a house.  And moved into it.  And moved out of the other one.  In that order.  So, this has important consequences regarding my phone number.  It's strictly mobile phone only at the moment, until I arrange something (probably with NTL).  Equally frighteneningly this means I don't presently have any kind of internet access at home, and while it doesn't logically derive, it's also true that I have absolutely no television reception whatsoever.  Don't worry - that sympathetic pang you just felt was just a natural part of being human.  It turns out that polystyrene doesn't experience that at all.  I know - there goes another pang.  Poor old polystyrene.

 

So, it's a one bedroom wonder in a neighbouring town equipped with Argos, and is currently packed with cardboard boxes all (metaphorically) crying out, "Declutter", "Declutter".  So, while visitors are always welcome, you might want to come in small groups for the time-being.  Tom's mum has been kind enough to lend me two folding chairs to compensate for my absense of sofa.  Another pang, there.  Nice.

 

Oh, and Tom came over the other week.  It was supposed to be a social visit, but instead he helped me move all my furniture to the new house (or in some cases the dump).  He's a nice fella like that.  We hired a van.  I tried to drive it, but it was designed in such a way that there was no way that I could adjust the seat to a position that didn't cause me constant pain in the accelerator foot whilst driving.  So after my first journey, Tom took over.  He found he could position himself in a painless position, providing he ensured he could only just reach the steering wheel.  That's a Volkswagon van.  And VW reckon they're good.  But they're not, clearly.

 

So, being a brilliantly prepared individual, come my last day of house rental I was driving back and forth between the houses in my little Micra until about 5:30am in the morning.  Went to bed at 6:15am, setting the alarm for 7:00am to make sure I got to work okay.  Ooops.  Thankfully, my boss also does pangs, and let me take a days holiday...